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NEWARK, N.J. (PIX11) — Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was taken into custody by homeland security at an ICE facility in New Jersey on Friday afternoon, according to Alina Habba, the Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey.

“The Mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, committed trespass and ignored multiple warnings from Homeland Security Investigations to remove himself from the ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey this afternoon,” read the social media post from Habba.

Baraka is being held at the ICE Newark field office.

This is a developing story please check back for updates.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29381241

Donald Trump has threatened to place a 100 percent tariff on Barbie maker Mattel, after the company's CEO said it would continue to manufacture outside the U.S. but would be reducing its reliance on Chinese imports.

"I've heard [Mattel] said: 'Well we're going to go counter, we're going to try going someplace else,'" Trump said in the Oval Office on Thursday. "That's OK, let him go, and we'll put a 100 percent tariff on his toys, and he won't sell one toy in the United States, and that's their biggest market."

In an interview with CNBC on Tuesday, Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz was asked whether it would be cheaper to relocate some manufacturing to the U.S. due to the tariffs, but responded: "We don't see that happening."

During his first all-hands meeting with agency personnel, acting Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator David Richardson issued a striking warning: "Don't get in my way," the former United States Marine Corps ground combat officer told staff, according to a recording of the speech obtained by CBS News.

"Obfuscation, delay, undermining," Richardson continued, referencing tactics he believed a fraction of FEMA staff might try to subvert his agenda. "If you're one of those 20% of the people and you think those tactics and techniques are going to help you, they will not, because I will run right over you. I will achieve the president's intent."

Richardson's formal title is Senior Official Performing the Duties of FEMA Administrator. He was named to the role Thursday and has not been formally nominated nor confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

This is not even a competition anymore.

Other sources:

• Jewish Telegraphic Agency
• NBC News

The Pentagon has ordered all military leaders and commands to pull and review all of their library books that address diversity, anti-racism or gender issues by May 21, according to a memo issued to the force on Friday.

Columbia University student protesters have drawn both praise and criticism after 75 were arrested by the New York Police Department for occupying a room in Butler Library, an escalation in their call for the university to divest from Israel.

On Wednesday afternoon, one hundred university students, led by Columbia University Apartheid Divest (Cuad), took over the Lawrence A Wien Reading Room in Columbia’s main campus library, “renaming” it the “Basel Al-Araj Popular University”.

Cuad released a statement on Substack as the “Emergency Rally” began, stating that “as long as Columbia funds and profits from imperialist violence, the people will continue to disrupt Columbia's profits and legitimacy”.

The action took place in one of the most populated buildings during finals week, Butler Library, which is named after former Columbia president Nicolas Murray Butler, a man that Cuad accuses of being “a shameless Nazi sympathizer” who “limited the number of Jewish people who could attend Columbia, and expelled students who protested against Columbia's ties with the Nazis”.